The DNA of nearly all life on Earth contains many redundancies, and scientists have long wondered whether these redundancies ...

New research traces the genetic ancestry of the popular root vegetable to a brief plant romance millions of years ago.

While not conclusive, the findings could show that cognitive abilities grew much earlier in the human timeline than ...

Senate budget bill includes small increase for the health-research agency — but faces a long road before being signed into ...

In a giant feat of genetic engineering, scientists have created bacteria that make proteins in a radically different way than ...

There’s just one rather technical catch: prior to the study, surgeons first needed to cut a small window into the patient’s ...

T he Darwin Tree of Life (DToL) project aims to sequence the genomes of all animals, fungi and plants found in Great Britain ...

The lightning strike, which occurred over the southern U.S. in 2017, was found in a reanalysis of satellite and lightning ...

New imaging technology has allowed scientists to decipher the tattoos of an Iron Age mummy—and study them like never before.

The scientists also spotted large changes in protein levels around the ages of 45 and 55. One of the biggest shifts was in ...

A South African university has launched an anti-poaching campaign to inject the horns of rhinos with radioactive isotopes ...